The Florida Gators, behind a 38-28 victory over Arkansas in the SEC Championship game, have jumped the Michigan Wolverines to move into the coveted 2nd spot in the BCS Rankings.
Fans in teams of other conferences like to point out that the Big11Ten gets "lucky" by not having a conference championship game. This year, it appears the Big11Ten was penalized by not having a conference championship game as the Wolverines were out-of-sight/out-of-mind to the voters who hadn't witnessed a Michigan victory in three weeks. The complaining is surely to heat up over the next couple of days from some of our Wolverine blogging friends and they're right to be so angry. The Buckeyes are in the driver's seat this season, but that's no reason to believe the lunacy that is the BCS won't impact us next year or a year or two down the road.
Saying that, the matchup with Florida will be a good one. Urban Meyer has all kinds of Ohio connections (born in Ashtabula, first head coaching position was at Bowling Green, etc.) and this game will be a really good measuring stick in terms of conference claims of superiority.
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I have already had it with Urban Meyer and his whining about getting their shot at an asswhoppin'!! Check out the Harris poll........whomever voted Florida #1 should not be allowed to vote next year.
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I think Florida deserved the nod, but you are right, whoever voted Fla number one should be put down...that is completely ridiculous...
Wow, I hadn't seen the Harris details. Just assumed we were unanimous again. Don't they publish the votes for that poll?
This shows us how each person voted in the Harris Poll. Jim Walden is the loser that voted Florida #1.
http://www.pollg.com/g/w27236/...
This is the last line on Jim Walden's bio at wikipedia..........
Some coward will probably delete this again, but that will not change the FACT that Walden was the only Harris Poll voter to rank the Florida Gators first in his final ballot, in a shameless attempt to ensure that Florida would play in the BCS Championship Game. Why try to supress the truth?
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Anyone catch Gary Danielson's comments about Kirk Herbstreit yesterday on 1460 with Bruce Hooley? Basically said Herby had one of his worst nights last Saturday and that he was pushing people to vote Michigan. That's why Danielson pushed Florida so hard. What a bunch of shit.